Ok so John the Apostle taught Polycarp, who taught Irenaeus. Irenaeus is writing Against Heresies around 180 AD, within two generations of the apostles. He wrote down the Eucharist as the true Body and Blood of Christ and the Eve/Mary typology. The way we understand it today. Paul commands Timothy to transmit what he received through laying on of hands to faithful men. John does the same with Polycarp, we have Irenaeus testifying to this personally. Polycarp then transmits to Irenaeus. Do Protestants just straight up believe the laying on of hands stopped mattering after the apostles died, with zero scriptural warrant for that conclusion?

Mormons do not believe they become like God. They believe they literally become a God, rule a planet, were once a spirit child of a physical god who was once a man. This is not the same as Eastern Orthodoxy. We don’t become Gods by nature or rule planets. We participate in God’s divine energies: His life, light, and love…while always remaining creatures. We have an essence/energies distinction. We participate in His divine energies, not His essence.

Calvinism has been absolutely destructive for western society and some protestant theology. Calvinism saved the soul from hell but forgot to save the human being. It's hyper focused on getting into heaven as a legal contract instead of transformation. When you start with Total Depravity as a permanent ontological condition rather than a diagnosis that grace actually heals, you end up with a framework where we never become anything new in Christ. If human nature can't be genuinely elevated, united, and transformed by grace, then the Incarnation didn't accomplish what the Fathers said it did: the union of the divine and human natures in one Person, making humanity itself capable of bearing God. Christ didn't come to absorb a legal penalty. He came to restore and elevate what Adam lost, to recapitulate humanity, and to open the way for us to become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) not a medieval legal theory. If the human person never truly becomes anything, the saints are just pardoned criminals: not glorified images of God reflecting uncreated light. And if that's true, why would you venerate them? Why would Mary matter? Why would the Incarnation require a pure vessel at all? When I started to understand this, I could look at someone I didn't know and cry for them. You will weep for the world, feel responsible for everyone and see Christ's face in every human being you pass.

People already have interpreted it themselves…that’s why you have thousands of denominations. The charismatics and radical reformers won out. The future of the Reformation is people flopping on the ground calling gibberish ‘tongues.’ They’re projected to be the largest Christian body in the world by the end of the century. This is what private interpretation produces. And guess what…your dogma (5 solas) prevents you from stopping their insanity.

I started inquiring into Orthodoxy back in September of last year and after a couple of months I was finally able to grow a beard in my mid 30s. ☦️ Orthodoxy>Minoxidil

Random thought I had today: If total depravity means the noetic effects of sin extend to the intellect, which Reformed theology consistently affirms…then the unregenerate mind is incapable of rightly understanding spiritual truth. If their exegete is regenerate, the their conclusions are being shaped by the Spirit’s illumination, not by the bare text alone. Which means sola scriptura is actually Sola Spiritura: salvation by vibes alone. Or if their definition of depravity doesn’t fully corrupt the intellect…then it can’t be total and the entire structure TD is built on collapses.

Protestants: “Icons are idolatry.” Also Protestants: sobbing at a for-profit TV show where a Mormon wrote Jesus’ dialogue The honor goes to the prototype. Basil said it in the 4th century. You figured it out streaming a TV show.

My 5 year old daughter is in surgery right now. Please pray for her

I can’t even wrap my head around how much propaganda it took to convince an entire generation of women that this was oppressive.

It’s wild how he understands that they’re modern Bolsheviks…but simultaneously fails to understand the only path to victory is through. He needs TRT and DHT.

Having children is a blessing. Not a burden.

Jesus is Lord.

Chris Langan, IQ 210 Definition of God

I have 3 daughters. They deserve to live in a world where crime is made illegal, where children aren’t trafficked by drug cartels (with U.S. taxpayer funding), and where GROOMERS are kept away from all children!

Cybertruck = Refrigerator Cybervan = Toaster

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